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The riverside market hall and its little all-weather greenhouse — souvenirs, snack floors, and the West Port shuttle’s drop point.
A waterfront complex on the river with food stalls, local produce and an attached glass-roofed greenhouse called EGG, which is heated and green in the middle of a Hokkaido winter. It is the town's indoor answer, and it is next to the berth.
Counted from the moment you step off the gangway. The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside.
8 minutes each way is the honest figure for riverside · 8 min walk, not the optimistic one. If your ship is late, cut the 29 min in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare on a 6-hour stop ashore.
Each one is a finished day we have walked and timed, with this stop in it. Read the route rather than assembling it yourself.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
1 hr 15 min for bothLocals rank this sunset with Manila and Bali’s, and on a clear evening the river agrees.
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1 hr 15 min for bothThe lightest bowl in Hokkaido — feathery curled noodles in clear shoyu, built for fishermen eating fast between tides..
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1 hr 30 min for bothMeat-sauce spaghetti under a fried cutlet on a screaming-hot iron plate — invented at this very restaurant in 1960 to fight exactly this climate..
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